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coalition_unwilling

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12. While I really appreciate your taking the
Sun Dec 16, 2012, 05:27 PM
Dec 2012

time to annotate my post with some excellent comments, I must take issue with one sentiment within your reply:

In many cases in minority neighborhoods the victims aren't truly innocent (emphasis added). They chose to play the game. They're involved in drugs. Freely associated with gangs or decided to defend "their" group or insult the "other" group. Perhaps they didn't know the risk. Perhaps they decided that they'd never have to suffer the risk. Fools. "My little baby was innocent" is often a mother's self-delusion.


I cannot tell you the number of times that little kids in Los Angeles get shot through no fault of the kids. They're simply doing what kids of any race, whether it be white, black or purple, would be doing: playing, crossing the street, sitting at home. I refuse to accept that those minority children bear any responsibility whatsoever for what befalls them. And even blaming their parents to me smacks of cruelty and lack of human kindness (to quote MacBeth).

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